'High-level' Taunton trafficker stashed the drugs in his room at sober house, DA says

The Taunton Daily Gazette

TAUNTON — A 38-year-old "high-level" Taunton narcotics trafficker was sentenced this week to serve five to eight years in state prison, the Bristol County District Attorney's Office said.

Daniel St. Pierre pleaded guilty in Fall River Superior Court on Thursday, March 8, to indictments charging him with trafficking fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine, the DA's office said in a written statement Friday.

On June 20, 2023, the Taunton Police street crimes unit executed a search warrant at 57 Church Green, a sober home in Taunton, the DA's office said. St. Pierre, one of the sober home residents, was the target of the search warrant.

When the police established surveillance of the sober home, they saw the defendant exit the sober home while on a cell phone, the DA's office said. The defendant sat on the front stairs of the building when a woman walked through Church Green and onto the front stairs. The woman sat next to the defendant, and the detectives watched him hand her something. She immediately put an item into her mouth and washed it down with a drink.

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Believing the woman had just consumed narcotics, which she obtained from St. Pierre, the detectives confronted both parties, the DA's office said. The woman told the police that she had just purchased three Adderall pills from the defendant. She ingested one of the pills and showed the police that she had the other two pills in a cigarette pack. Those two pills were seized and the defendant was placed into custody.

The defendant was led to his room in the sober house, where police recovered the following items, the DA's office said:

  • Numerous tablets which were tested and found to be 564 grams of methamphetamine

  • A white rock-like substance which was tested and found to be 24 grams of cocaine

  • 584 tablets which were tested and found to be 46 grams of fentanyl

In addition, the police located several "hide cans" used to secrete the narcotics, plastic bags, three digital scales and $11,126 in cash, the DA's office said.

The two pills seized from the woman were also tested and found to be methamphetamine.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Jason Mohan and the state prison sentence was imposed by Judge Raffi Yessayan.

“The defendant was selling large amounts of very dangerous drugs that are upending communities and ruining people’s lives. The sentence is appropriate to protect the public,” District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III said.

This article originally appeared on The Enterprise: Taunton sober house resident was trafficking narcotics stashed in room

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